Francesco Manetti

Born in Livorno, Tuscany, Italy, September the 13, 1982, Francesco Manetti grew up devoted to Art, especially the visual arts. Since he was a child he nurtured a love for drawing and painting, for graphics and illustration. At the age of 20 he started composing his first works with greater dedication and in-depth research, strongly inspired by the work of contemporary masters such as Jean Michel Basquiat, Mark Rothko, Jean Dubuffet, Franz Kline and Cy Twombly, just to name the most important.
At the age of 23 he started studying visual arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara (Italy), where he developed that combination of techniques and disciplines that then characterized his future artistic project. In his early artistic career, parallel to the painting, he dedicated a particular attention to the world of illustration, to which he dedicated his degree thesis, which took place in 2010. He has worked assiduously in the field of illustration collaborating with various publishing houses specialized in illustrated books for children. At the same time, he has carried on his pictorial project, through collective and solo exhibitions, in a constant evolutive “work in progress” that has led him to his actual artistic way based on the...

2010 – Visual Arts degree. Academy of Fine Arts, Carrara, Italy
2005 – Graphics degree. IFOTER, Livorno, Italy
2001 – Surveyor's diploma. Technical institute for surveyors, B.Buontalenti, Livorno, Italy

2022 | Impronte d'Arte, DuePuntoZero gallery, Bergamo, Italy (collective exhibition)

2022 | Art.Box.Project Palma 1.0, Casa del Arte, Palma de Maiorca, Spain (collective exhibition)

2022 | Open Art, Art Number 23 gallery, Barcelona, Spain (collective exhibition)

2022 | Biennale di Vercelli, Studio 256 art gallery, Vercelli (VC), Italy (collective exhibition)

2013 | Gipsy House art gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina (collective exhibition)

2012 | Te Walnut art gallery, Pietrasanta (LU), Italy (solo exhibition)

2007 | Brainstorming art festival, Livorno (LI), Italy (collective exhibition)

2007 | Ofcina Refugio, Livorno (LI), Italy (collective exhibition)

2006 | Pollock art gallery, Pisa (PI), Italy (collective exhibition)

2006 | Ofcina Refugio, Livorno (LI), Italy (collective exhibition)

2005 | Efetto Venezia, Livorno (LI), Italy (collective exhibition)